A man plummeted from a Weston Road apartment balcony Monday after police fired a Taser, ending an hours-long standoff that began with a domestic call. Ontario’s police watchdog is investigating after Daniel Wright, 42, was rushed to Sunnybrook hospital for treatment.

Christine Hall witnessed a lot of drama during five years of emergency-medicine training, but one incident near the end of her residency left the young physician stunned. A patient had arrived at her Calgary emergency department violently agitated and incoherent, was restrained by security guards and injected with a sedative. And, within 2 ½ minutes, […]

A Toronto police officer who threatened to Taser two handcuffed burglary suspects in the genitals was given a conditional discharge Monday. Constable Christopher Hominuk, 38, was sentenced to nine months of probation, 50 hours of community service related to diabetes awareness, and a $500 fine after he was recorded on in-cruiser video threatening two suspects […]